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Kimmie Meissner wants to compete again
candy.thomson@baltsun.comWhen Kimmie Meissner filled out her first job application recently, she paused when she reached the line that asked for her employment history. She finally wrote: Team USA, 2002 to present. But the here and now is an unsettled place. Since last summer,...Tags: Ice Skating, Multi-Sport Events, 2016 Olympic Games, New Year's Day, Sports
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Sasha Cohen, Kimmie Meissner lose footing in skate comebacks
L.A. Times Olympics BlogIt has been a tough couple days for twentysomethings trying to make figure skating comebacks. Thursday, former world and U.S. champion Kimmie Meissner, 20, announced her season -- and, likely, her competitive career -- were over because of a severe...... -
Skating math: Why Kim Yuna's gold medal glitters more, and post-Olympic worlds don't add up
L.A. Times Olympics BlogAs South Korea's Kim Yuna prepares to defend her world figure skating title this week in Turin, Italy, it's worth looking, by the numbers, at both her gold medal Olympic performance and the very idea of a post-Olympic world meet....... -
Ranking the top 10 sports stories of the past decade
Did the past decade really go by this fast? Wasn't it just yesterday when the parade celebrating the Ravens' Super Bowl victory rolled through downtown with 200,000 packed in along the route? Maybe it just seems like it because the Ravens teased us last...Tags: Florida State University, National Football League, Baltimore Colts, Basketball, Mine That Bird (racehorse)
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U.S. skater Nagasu wins world short program; Olympic champ Kim 7th
L.A. Times Olympics BlogA month ago, as the Winter Olympics ended, I wrote a blog saying the most enduring memory I would take from Vancouver was a vision of Mirai Nagasu as the next Olympic women's figure skating champion. Friday, the 16-year-old from...... -
Meissner ready to rebound after tough season
Kimmie Meissner prepared for the worst and got the best. The former world and national champion from Bel Air suffered through a disastrous season last year that ended with a painful hip injury, and she figured the best she could hope for was a single...Tags: Rostelecom, Multi-Sport Events, Sports, 2010 Winter Olympic Games
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Injury derails Meissner's Olympic dream
candy.thomson@baltsun.comJust a week ago, Kimmie Meissner was talking about a comeback - from bad performances in recent years and from injuries that continued to nag her as she readied for a new season of figure skating. Now her dreams of a second trip to the Olympics in...Tags: Rostelecom, Multi-Sport Events, Death, Ice Skating, Diplomacy
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Meissner hopes new instructor helps artistic side shine through
The newest member of Kimmie Meissner's coaching team is a free spirit who cheerfully concedes that he knows nothing of figure skating, travels the country in a clunker Jeep with a bungee-corded tarp for a roof and 260,000 on the odometer, and keeps his...Tags: Justice System, Michelle Kwan, Sports, Dance, 2010 Winter Olympic Games
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Flatt, Nagasu finish 1-2 in nationals; Cohen a distant fourth
L.A. Times Olympics BlogThere could hardly have been a more dramatic series of story lines for the women’s free skate final Saturday night at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships. Would Sasha Cohen’s comeback end as brilliantly as she started it while finishing second...... -
Kimmie Meissner remembers her Opening Ceremony experience
L.A. Times Olympics BlogWith the opening ceremonies for the Vancouver Olympics starting Friday night, I find myself reflecting on the opening ceremonies of my own Olympics in Torino, Italy. Even after I had qualified, it was still "the Olympics." They were just a...... -
Meissner clinches world skating title
Sun reporterHer smile stretched from one end of the rink to the other, and hundreds of young girls excitedly shrieked her name: "Kimmie! Kimmie!" The screams bounced off the rafters. Bel Air's ice princess, 16-year-old figure skater Kimmie Meissner, took her place...Tags: Richard Lynch, Michelle Kwan, Arts and Culture, Sports, History
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Skater's routine is about to change
Sun reporterKimmie Meissner concluded her first season skating among the sport's elite in spectacular fashion, and she'll now turn her attention to the next big event on her calendar: the school prom. "Well, I'm going with a friend who is a guy," she said, "but [he'...Tags: Multi-Sport Events, Ice Skating, 2016 Olympic Games, Michelle Kwan, Sports
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